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friendly

adj
/ˈfɹɛnd.li/

Etymology

From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”). Doublet of friendlike.

  1. inherited from *frijōndlīkaz✻
  2. inherited from frēondlīċ
  3. inherited from frendly

Definitions

  1. Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

    • Your cat seems very friendly.
    • Our friendliest carmates are a family from Armenia taking a vacation from the Georgian war.

  2. Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.

    • He gave a friendly smile.

  3. Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.

    • a user-friendly software program
    • a dog-friendly café
    • the use of environmentally friendly packaging
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).

      • The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
      • Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
      • Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.

    2. Without any hostility.

      • a friendly competition
      • a friendly power or state
      • in friendly relations with his moderate opponents

    3. Promoting the good of any person

      Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

      • a friendly breeze or gale

    4. Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other…

      Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.

      • The soldier was killed by friendly fire.

    5. Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

      • friendly
      • friendly pairs
      • friendly n-tuples

    6. A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.

      • This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
      • Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.

    7. A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.

      • These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
      • "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies."

    8. In a friendly manner

      In a friendly manner; like a friend.

      • And looke we friendly on them when they come: But if they offer word or violence, Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one, Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
      • And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.

    9. A place name

      A place name:

    10. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

biofriendly, ecologically friendly, envirofriendly, enviro-friendly, find a friendly bush, friendlihead, friendlihood, friendliness, friendly amendment, friendly fire, friendly fraud, friendly giant, Friendly Hills, friendlyish, Friendly Islands, friendly lead, friendly match, friendly name, friendly number, friendly society, friendly suit, friendly URL, guest-friendly, heterofriendly, make friendly, Officer Friendly, overfriendly, poz friendly, search-engine-friendly, superfriendly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at friendly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01friendly02warm03visible04seen05understood06understand07familiar

A definitional loop anchored at friendly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at friendly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA